These are the words that lead into the Twelve Steps. In their
direct simplicity they sweep aside all psychological and
philosophical considerations about the rightness of the Steps.
They describe what I did: I took the Steps and sobriety was
the result. These words do not imply that I should walk the
well-trodden path of those who went before, but rather that
there is a way for me to become sober and that it is a way I
shall have to find. It is a new path, one that leads to
infinite light at the top of the mountain. The Steps advise
me about the footholds that are safe and about chasms to
avoid. They provide me with the tools I need during the many
parts of the solitary journey of my soul. When I speak of
this journey, I share my experience, strength and hope with
others.

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Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

Some more things I do not miss since becoming dry: wondering
if the car is in the garage and how I got home; struggling to
remember where I was and what I did since my last conscious
moment; trying to delay getting off to work, and wondering how
I will look when I get there; dreading the day ahead of me.
I'm quite sure that I don't miss these things, am I not?

Meditation For The Day

You cannot believe in God and keep your selfish ways. The old
self shrivels up and dies, and upon the reborn soul God's
image becomes stamped. The gradual elimination of selfishness
in the growth of love for God and your fellow human beings is
the goal of life. At first, you have only a faint likeness to
the Divine, but the picture grows and takes on more and more
of the likeness of God until those who see you can see in you
some of the power of God's grace at work in a human life.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may develop that faint likeness I have to the
Divine. I pray that others may see in me some of the power of
God's grace at work.

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As Bill Sees It

Without
Anger, p. 153

Suppose A.A. falls under sharp public attack or heavy ridicule, having
little or no justification in fact. Our best defense in these situations
would be no defense whatever--namely, complete silence at the public
level. If in good humor we let unreasonable critics alone, they are apt
to subside more quickly. If their attacks persist and it is plain that
they
are misinformed, it may be wise to communicate with them privately in
a temperate and informative way.

If, however, a given criticism of A.A. is partly or wholly justified,
it may
well be to acknowledge this privately to the critics, together with our
thanks.

But under no conditions should we exhibit anger or any punitive intent.

<< << << >> >> >>

What we must recognize is that we exult in some of our defects.
Self-righteousness anger can be very enjoyable. In a perverse way we
can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us;
it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority.

1. Twelve Concepts, p. 69
2. 12 & 12, pp. 66-67

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Walk in Dry Places

Why admitting we're wrong is right
Right action
Sometimes it's painful or almost impossible to admit that we've been
wrong. This means we'll probably go on making the same mistakes until
we're forced to face the truth. Why does this happen?
The problem lies with what we call the EGO in our Twelve step program
discussions. We commit ourselves in defending this ego at al times,
especially around people who seem to put us down. Far from being a
minor correction, any admissions of wrong feels like total defeat, at
least in our warped way of looking at things.
We can release ourselves from this bondage simply by coming to see that
admitting and facing our wrongs is essential to growth. A store manager
who overstocks a certain item "admits" the mistake by putting the
goods on a clearance sale and getting rid of them. We can cut any
loss
in the same way by admitting a mistake and going on to a better course
of action.
I'll not plan to make any mistakes today, but I'll hold myself in
readiness to admit them if they occur. This is no threat to my
ego. I
am much more than my mistakes.

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I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from
fear and smallness within me. --Angela L. Wozniak
We create problems for ourselves because we think we need to be more
than we are. We fear that we are inadequate to the task before us, fear
that another woman is more attractive, fear that the friends around us
are bored by our presence.
Fear hinders us; it prevents full involvement with the experiences we
are given to grow on. When we withdraw from a situation in order to
save ourselves from failure, we have chosen instead another kind of
failure: failure to take all we can from life; failure to be all that
we can be. Every experience can move us forward in the understanding of
ourselves. When we withdraw, we stay stuck in a world we need to leave
behind.
I will not fear whatever looks like trouble today. Nothing I can't
handle, in fact, nothing I can't grow from will come my way today. My
inner strength can see me through.***********************************************************

Keep It Simple

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.---Eleanor Roosevelt
Most of us want to be happy. We just don't know how. We aren't sure
what
happiness is. We've learned the hard way that some things we wanted
didn't make us happy. We're learning that happiness comes when we live
the way our Higher Power wants us to live. That's when we’re honest.
When
we do our best work. When we are a true friend. We make happiness; we
don't find it. Sometimes we don't even know we're happy. We're
too
busy with our work, our recovery program, our friends and family. We
need
to slow down and know that when we do what we need to, happiness
comes.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me know that I'm most
happy when I listen to You and
do Your will. You know better than I do what makes me happy.
Action for the Day: What parts of my program am I most happy
about? Today I'll think of these
and enjoy myself.

If he speaks of his home situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful
suggestions. Can he talk frankly with you so long as he does not bear
business tales or criticize his associate? With this kind of employee
such an attitude will command undying loyalty.

FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE -
Young when she
joined, this A.A. believes her serious drinking was the result of even
deeper defects. She here tells how she was free.

I wasn't afraid of anything or anybody after I learned about
drinking.
It seemed right from the beginning that with liquor I could always
retire to my little private world where nobody could get at me to hurt
me. It seems only fitting that when I did finally fall in love,
it was
with an alcoholic, and for the next ten years I progressed as rapidly
as is humanly possible in what I believed to be hopeless alcoholism.

p. 546***********************************************************

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Foreword

Everywhere there arose threatening questions of membership, money,
personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and
scores of other perplexities. It was out of this vast welter of
explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were
first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First
International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950. The Tradition
section of this volume portrays in some detail the experience which
finally produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present
form, substance, and unity.

p. 18***********************************************************

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn
whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
--Helen Keller

I came to this program to save my butt and found out it was attached
to my soul.
--Anonymous

"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on
the inside of us."
--Park Cousins

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the
only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have
sought and found how to serve."
--Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"What we do in these rooms is we share our experience, strength, and
hope. The worse it gets, the more we laugh and the better it gets,
the more we cry. We call it Alcoholics Anonymous."
--thanks to Norm A. for this wonderful quote

In this world, nothing is permanent except change.
--American Proverb

All things change, and we with them.
--American Proverb

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Father Leo's Daily Meditation

TIME

"Everything one does enough of
eventually generates its own
interest and one then begins to
believe in it. "
--Alan Dunn

I never thought that I could stay sober. For years I tried to abstain
with no success. It was not the act of stopping that was different ( I
could stop three times in one week!). It was staying stopped.

Then a man said, "Try stopping for twenty-four hours. If that proves
too long, try stopping until the morning or for one hour or even for one
minute . . . If the cravings gets too severe, call me but don't take
that
first drink!" My abstinence began in periods of twenty-four hours.
Life is made up of days and we live in periods of twenty-four hours, so
I live a day at a time. I was successful. I am successful. Today I have
a
number of years that are based on the simplicity of "don't drink today
". I believe in it. I believe in me. And it gets better.

Lord of time, thank you for giving me the simplicity of days, hours and
minutes.

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You
will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
Isaiah 26:3

He saved us, not because of the good things we did, but because of his
mercy. He washed away our sins and gave us a new life through the
Holy Spirit. He generously poured out the Spirit upon us because of
what Jesus Christ our Savior did.
Titus 3:5-6

You aren't alone in your trials and struggles. God is your help and
strength in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16***********************************************************

Daily Inspiration
Sometimes it is better to remove things from your "to
do" list rather than adding to it. Lord, give me the courage to say no
to the things that cause me to feel overwhelmed.

Imagine that you were paid for every kindness and charged for every
unkindness. Would you be rich or poor? Lord, I often pray for material
wealth. Let me not neglect my soul by now praying for the ability to
build my spiritual wealth also.

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NA Just For Today

Sick And Tired

"We wanted an easy way out.... When we
did seek help we were only looking for the absence of pain."Basic Text, p. 5

Something's not working. In fact,
something's been wrong for a long time, causing us pain and
complicating our lives. The problem is that, at any given moment, it
always appears easier to continue bearing the pain of our defects than
to submit to the total upheaval involved in changing the way we live.
We may long to be free of pain, but only rarely are we willing to do
what's truly necessary to remove the source of pain from our lives.

Most of us didn't begin seeking
recovery from addiction until we were "sick and tired of being tired
and sick." The same is true of the lingering character defects we've
carried through our lives. Only when we can't bear our shortcomings one
moment longer, only when we know that the pain of change can't be as
bad as the pain we're in today, are most of us willing to try something
different.

Thankfully, the steps are always
there, no matter what we're sick and tired of. The irony is that, as
soon as we make the decision to begin the Twelve Step process, we
realize our fears of change were groundless. The steps offer a gentle
program of change, one step at a time. No single step is so frightening
that we can't work it, by itself. As we apply the steps to our lives,
we experience a change that frees us.

Just for today: No matter what
prevents me from living a full, happy life, I know the program can help
me change, a step at a time. I need not be afraid of the Twelve Steps.
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You are reading from the book Today's Gift.Thoughts, rest your wings. Here is a
hollow of silence, a nest of stillness, in which to hatch your dreams.
--Joan Walsh AnglundThere is silence in the nest before an
egg is hatched. The mother robin must sit quietly and warm them enough
to be hatched. During this time, the mother concentrates only on her
eggs. She does not let herself be distracted.There is a time of silence before
anything creative is born. And there is silence in the mind before an
idea is discovered. A nest is a safe place birds can always return to
and be at home. We all need such a nest of silence--a place where we
can be quiet and safe, where we can let ourselves be held, and rest.Often, our best ideas come out of
these quiet moments. Times of silence are good for our souls. Just like
the robin eggs hatching, so will dreams and solutions grow out of our
own nest of stillness.How well will I use my quiet time
today?

You are reading from the book
Touchstones.'Remember! You're two different
animals. Men and women cannot totally unite. --Pierre MornellAs we relate to women, we are often
driven by needs, which no person could meet, and hampered by ignorance
of what the opposite sex is really like. Perhaps we want to lose
ourselves in a romantic closeness as we once lost ourselves in
addiction and codependency. Then we get hurt and angry when the
impossible doesn't happen. Or we fail to understand that one woman's
reactions are different from our own.The dialogue between the sexes is as
old as the generations. It will always be a mixture of fascination,
mystery, frustration, and new understandings. When we realize we cannot
merge with a woman, take her over, or be taken over by her, we will
meet her as a separate person, and our relationships will become vastly
more peaceful.Thanks to God for the differences. Let
me learn more about them and accept them.

You are reading from the book Each Day
a New Beginning.I have come to realize that all my
trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
--Angela L. WozniakWe create problems for ourselves
because we think we need to be more than we are. We fear that we are
inadequate to the task before us, fear that another woman is more
attractive, fear that the friends around us are bored by our presence.Fear hinders us; it prevents full
involvement with the experiences we are given to grow on. When we
withdraw from a situation in order to save ourselves from failure, we
have chosen instead another kind of failure: failure to take all we can
from life; failure to be all that we can be. Every experience can move
us forward in the understanding of ourselves. When we withdraw, we stay
stuck in a world we need to leave behind.I will not fear whatever looks like
trouble today. Nothing I can't handle, in fact, nothing I can't grow
from will come my way today. My inner strength can see me through.

You are reading from the book The
Language of Letting Go.Owning Our PowerWe don't have to give others so much
power and ourselves so little. We don't have to give others so much
credit and ourselves so little. In recovery from codependency, we learn
there's a big difference between humility and discounting ourselves.When others act irresponsibly and
attempt to blame their problems on us, we no longer feel guilty. We let
them face their own consequences.When others talk nonsense, we don't
question our own thinking.When others try to manipulate or
exploit us, we know it's okay to feel anger and distrust and to say no
to the plan.When others tell us that we want
something that we really don't want, or someone tells us that we don't
want something that we really do want, we trust ourselves. When others
tell us things we don't believe, we know it's okay to trust our
instincts.We can even change our mind later.We don't have to give up our personal
power to anyone: strangers, friends, spouses, children, authority
figures, or those over whom we're in authority. People may have things
to teach us. They may have more information than we have, and may
appear more confident or forceful than we feel. But we are equals. Our
magic is not in them. Our magic, our light, is in us. And it is as
bright a light as theirs.We are not second-class citizens. By
owning our power, we don't have to become aggressive or controlling. We
don't have to discount others. But we don't discount ourselves either.Today, I will own my power with
people. I will let myself know what I know, feel what I feel, believe
what I believe, and see what I see. I will be open to changing and
learning from others and experience, but I will trust and validate
myself too. I will stand in my own truth.

Today I choose to go with the flow.
--Ruth Fishel

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Journey To The Heart

Why Hurry Through?

Why hurry through a day, an hour, a
life?

Hurry never catches up with itself. It
misses out. It strains. It stresses. It doesn’t trust the natural
rhythm, the natural order, of the universe. Slow down. Tap into the
rhythm of the world. Tap into your rhythm as you dance through life, as
you dance through eternity.

When you hurry, it is as if we are
dancing out of step to the music. We become out of sync. Our body
strains and stresses. We stop enjoying life. We are too busy hurrying,
racing blindly to somewhere, anywhere. We hurry so fast that when we
get there, we don’t take the time to enjoy it. We simply hurry on to
the next moment.

Step in time to the music– the rhythm
of our soul. The rhythm will lead you where you want to go. It will
take you through all the tasks that need doing. It will take you down
the road to spiritual growth, healing fulfillment, and joy.

And you’ll have more fun going there
because you weren’t in a hurry.

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More Language Of Letting Go

Practice peace

I think that change often slips in
when we’re relaxed inside of ourselves. –Sark

Relax. Calm yourself down. Breathe
consciously.

You don’t have to take a nap to relax,
but sometimes it helps. So does taking a hot shower, walking through a
forest, wading in a stream, drinking a cup of tea, going for a swim,
watching a movie, listening to music, saying a prayer, meditating,
getting a back rub, looking at the moon, or hearing a good joke.

Become conscious of how your body
feels when you’re rrelaxed inside. How do you stand, walk, sit, breathe?

Become conscious of how you feel and
what you think when you’re relaxed, It’s almost like nothingness, only
you’re awake and aware. There are no angry thoughts and feelings. No
frightened thoughts and feelings.

Practice relaxing until you can take
that relaxed feeling with you no matter where you go or what you’re
doing.

When’s a good time to relax? When you
can’t do anything about whatever’s bothering you. When you’re afraid.
When you’re certain that you have to do something, but you don’t know
what that something is. When you’re meeting someone for the first time,
obsessing, feeling guilty, grieving, feeling lonely, telling someone
how you feel, balancing your checkbook, falling in love, getting a
divorce, climbing a mountain, or learning to do something new.

When you practice relaxing inside,
you’re practicing peace.

Practice peace until you can do it
perfectly.

God, help me learn to consciously
relax inside of myself.

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Sharing Space and EnergyCohabitating with Others

Our homes are our havens. These places
where we come to rest, recharge, and dream in safety and comfort allow
us to better face the challenges of the world outside our doors. When
sharing a living space with others, an awareness of the thoughts and
feelings of everyone involved is essential in creating the peace we all
desire. Regardless of where we lived before, each time we cohabitate
with others it is important that we make the effort to share the space
in a way that supports everyone.

We need to remember that in a shared
space, everything we sense can also be sensed by another person. Peace
will not likely be the result when the senses are filled with the sight
of unwashed plates, intrusive sounds, unpleasant smells, the feel of a
foreign substance beneath bare feet, or the taste of food tainted by an
uncovered onion in the fridge. But if we communicate and listen with
respect to those with whom we share a space, we may find that one
enjoys washing dishes to end the day, while the other can take out the
garbage during their evening walk. Working with another’s schedule, you
can still meditate or exercise to your favorite music while the other
is out, and save reading for the times when they are trying to sleep.
Being thoughtful of the energy that is required for something to be
cleaned up may make everyone aware of being neater, whether that means
taking off your shoes at the entrance or wiping up juice spilled on the
kitchen floor.

In the same way, pent up resentment
toward your living partners is just as easily felt. Keeping the energy
clear requires the effort of communication, the awareness of another’s
feelings, and courtesy toward the space you share. While that sometimes
requires changing your schedule or habits, there are many times when
having a caring someone nearby is worth all the effort. Living with
others can help us learn to mingle our energies at home as well as at
work and in the world at large in a way that benefits us and everyone
around us. Published with permission from Daily OM

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A Day at a Time

Reflection for the DayIn the process of learning to love
myself and, in turn, to love others freely with no strings attached,
I've begun to understand these words of St. Augustine: "Love slays what
we have been, that we may be what we were not." More and more, I feel
this enormous power of such love in The Program; for me, the words, "we
care," also mean, "we love."

Just for today, will I try to be
loving in every thought and action?

Today I PrayI pray that I may feel the enormity
and the power of the love I find in The Program. May my own caring be
added to that great energy of love which belongs to all of us. May I
care with my whole heart that my fellow members maintain their sobriety
and are learning to live with it comfortably and creatively. May I
never doubt that they care the same way about me.

Today I Will RememberCaring makes it happen.

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One More Day

All our reasoning ends in surrender
to feeling. – Blaise Pascal

In all our endeavors it is apparent
that success is possible only with persistent effort. We must all pay
the price to achieve any worthwhile goal. We shouldn’t be surprised
when negative thoughts enter our minds. These thoughts do not go away
easily. We have human frailties, so our thoughts are often disorganized
and feelings are to subdued or excessive. Perfection is not possible no
matter how hard we try. But we can search for answers.

We can’t have things both ways, so we
have to make choices. We can think through the trade-off before we make
a choice. Whatever our choice, we should make it and accept it.
Squandered chances to solve problems may be lost forever.

I struggle with the same problems
over and over again. Today, I resolve to start my search to find some
answers.
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One Day At A Time

STEP ONE“Well begun is half done.”Aristotle

The first time I took step one I knew
that I was beat. Because I knew that I was beat, I knew I had to have
help to survive. I sought and accepted that help in OA. I put the
program into action. I completed the twelve steps and tasted recovery.

Over the years I have had to renew my
step one, and each time I was convinced that I was not going to make it
without the help in program. That spurred me on to complete the 12
steps many times. Step one is essentially what made me complete all
twelve steps and go on to a fuller and fuller life in recovery. Without
step one, there really was no need or motivation for steps two through
twelve.

Recently I realized that step one is
particularly necessary to do step twelve. I cannot help anyone without
my Higher Power. I cannot control another's program. I cannot carry the
message on my own, nor can I practice the principles in all my affairs
by myself. Step one -- my powerlessness and my inability to manage --
is a great blessing. It is what spurs me on to turn to my Higher Power
in all tasks great and small; it is what helps me to gain more and more
ground in recovery.

One day at a time...I will admit my powerlessness and my
inability to manage, then I will turn to God Who will take me through
my program and my life - with His power and His ability to manage.~ Q
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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist:
'As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship
of my specialty to A.A. and I have come to the conclusion that our
particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the
patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help. I now conceive
the psychiatrist's job to be the task of breaking down the patient's
inner resistance so that which is inside him will flower, as under the
activity of the A.A. program.'

Pg. 569 - 4th. Ed. - Appendices III -
The Medical View On A.A.

Hour To Hour - Book - Quote

An understanding of the false
'benefits' of mind-affecting chemicals is required so we can begin
anew. An understanding of the 'tricks' of the mind to get us to use is
also needed. Then we can enter into the truth.

God, as I understand You, bring the
light of truth to my eyes.

Patience with Myself

Today, I will be patient with myself.
When I do not do as well as I wish I would, I will not make that a
reason to get down on myself. I will instead recognize that the fastest
way to bring myself out of a painful funk is through understanding and
being good to myself. I needn't get caught in my own cycle of shame,
resentment and blame. If a child is upset, I comfort the child because
I understand that is what will makes things better. I give myself the
same comfort that I would extend to a hurt child knowing that it will
help me have the strength to forgive and move on.

- Tian Dayton PhD

Pocket Sponsor - Book - Quote

What comes after ninety days?
Ninety-one! 'Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if
you just sit there.' ~Will Rogers

There are only two times I have to
diligently work this program, the first 90 days and every day after
that!

"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" -Book

Try to live life without adding to
your 8th Step list.

Time for Joy - Book - Quote

Today I choose to go with the flow.

Alkiespeak - Book - Quote

I drank to feel comfortable with being
uncomfortable. - Anon.
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AA Thought for the Day

June 2

Surprise!Somewhat to our surprise, staying
sober turns out not to be the grim,wet-blanket experience we had expected!While we were drinking, a life without
alcohol seemed like no life at all.But for most members of AA, living
sober is really living -- a joyous experience.We much prefer it to the troubles we
had with drinking.One more note: anyone can get sober.
We have all done it lots of times.The trick is to stay and to live
sober. That is what this booklet is about.- Living Sober, Foreword

Thought to Ponder . . .Sobriety is a journey, not a
destination.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .A A = Always Alive.

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~

Happiness"I feel myself a useful member of the
human race at last.I have something to contribute to
humanity,since I am peculiarly qualified, as a
fellow-sufferer,to give aid and comfort to those who
havestumbled and fallen over this businessof meeting life.I get my greatest thrill of
accomplishmentfrom the knowledge that I have played
a partin the new happiness achievedby countless others like myself."1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 229

Thought to Consider . . .The joy is in the journey, so enjoy
the ride.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today?

*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*

FairnessFrom "We Agnostics":"We used to amuse ourselves by
cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have
observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all
races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability,
happiness and usefulness which we should have
sought ourselves."Instead, we looked at the human
defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as a
basis of wholesale condemnation. We talked of
intolerance, while we were intolerant ourselves. We missed the reality
and the beauty of the forest because we were
diverted by the ugliness of some of its trees. We never gave the
spiritual side of life a fair hearing."2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition;
Alcoholics Anonymous, pgs. 49-50

*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~*

"I don't know when it happened, but
one day I felt like I belonged in my group of sober guys ... I didn't
have to leave. " Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, December 2006"Out of Isolation,"AA Grapevine

~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve
Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~*

"We try not to indulge in cynicism
over the state of the nations, nordo we carry the world's troubles on
our shoulders. When we see a mansinking into the mire that is
alcoholism, we give him first aid andplace what we have at his disposal."Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The
Family Afterward, pg. 132

"We needed to ask ourselves but one
short question. 'Do I nowbelieve, or am I even willing to
believe, that there is a Powergreater than myself?' As soon as a man
can say that he does believe,or is willing to believe, we
emphatically assure him that he is onhis way. It has been repeatedly proven
among us that upon thissimple cornerstone a wonderfully
effective spiritual structure can be built."Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We
Agnostics, pg. 47

The joy of living is the theme of
A.A.’s Twelfth Step, and action is its key word.-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
p. 106

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

Suppose A.A. falls under sharp public
attack or heavy ridicule, having little or no justification in fact.
Our best defense in these situations would be no defense
whatever--namely, complete silence at the public level. If in good
humor we let unreasonable critics alone, they are
apt to subside the more quickly. If their attacks persist and it is
plain that they are misinformed, it may be wise to
communicate with them privately in a temperate and informative way.If, however, a given criticism of A.A.
is partly or wholly justified, it may be well to acknowledge this
privately to the critics, together with our thanks.But under no conditions should we
exhibit anger or any punitive intent.What we must recognize is that we
exult in some of our defects. Self-righteous anger can be very
enjoyable. In a perverse way we can actually take
satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us; it brings a
comfortable feeling of superiority.

Prayer For The Day: Dear heavenly Father, I come to You with a
thankful heart for all that You have done in my life. Thank you for the
many answers to my prayers and I appreciate You always being there when
I call. May our lives be a testimony of Your love. Forgive us when we
fail You and help us to overcome all the things that would hinder us
from being like You. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

Ask
and you shall receive,Seek and ye shall find,Knock and it shall be opened unto you.Matthew 7:7

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